The void was a mysterious place.
The void has been seen twice.
To be clear, the void is not space.
A solar system is a dimension.
The void is the land outside the dimension.
The space of the space.
And the void has been seen only twice.
First of all, when a traveller accidentally reached the part ways. The tiny gap between the dimension and the void. The traveller died soon after due to space force from the part ways. The other time was at the destruction of the Realm Heart. The Realm being not destroyed but rather broken. This caused the realm boundaries to struggle and meet with the unforgiving void. The Void was fully visible right after the destruction of the Realm Heart. The Hero's who saw the void at the time all said one similar line.
"When I looked in, I could not see the end and it felt like I was being dragged in to see the end."
The void itself had an odd effect of dragging people who saw it in.
And that's what Deylor saw when he woke up in a makeshift home in a compact cave.
Blink.
The void gap that was once present had now been sealed by the Realm.
Deylor got up now that he was fully awake and quickly got more firewood.
The Demon Realm was no logger awfully hot and it wasn't terribly cold. To put it simply, the Realm was at a middle temperature. Not hot enough to give you sunburn and not cold enough to make you shiver. Throughout the air grey particles would fly from time to time.
The realm was dieing. Or rather it was fusing with something which caused it to die. It was becoming part of the void and so it would theoretically slowly be consumed until it became part of the endless void.
Unless a Realm Heart was forged obviously however the Realm Heart had been destroyed.
Deylor quickly remembered why the Demon King was so strong.
Classroom.
A teacher stood up as he spoke.
"Simply put, kill the Demon King by cracking the Realm Heart and once you crack the Realm Heart you defeat basically every single Demon. However the Realm aids the King as the Demon Kings Realm Heart aids it."
"The Demon King can control his surroundings freely due to his Realm Heart and the realm itself will patch up his Realm Heart if it is damaged severely. On top of this, The Demon Kings powers are all enhanced by the realm. In all honesty the only reason the 9 beat the Demon King is because they were granted power that boosted themselves immensely in a short time. The Demon King was also in a barren area so he could not receive much Realm energy, if the Demon King was in even a slightly better part of the Realm then even if the 9 doubled their numbers they would fail."
"But the bastards dead anyways so lets do some advanced mathematics."
Deylor thanked himself for listening in class before he began looking for some food to eat.
Considering just about every monster was Tier 7 or above and Deylor wasn't all for eating monsters it was time for some fishing.
Deylor whistled as he strolled to a pond he sighted.
After 3 minutes Deylor pulled out his fishing rod which was conveniently in the Explorers bag and began fishing.
1 minute passed.
2 minutes passed.
3 minutes passed.
4 MINUTES PASS-.
Deylor felt something.
Deylor pulled as hard as he could but it didn't rise.
Hungry and impatient Deylor used all his strength, with his evolved Demon physique pulling the big fish out was easy but the next part was not.
A huge jaw shadowed over Deylor as it flew towards him.
Deylor cursed.
Deylor instinctively released as many black flames as he could. Their power alone pushed his feet back through the black dirt.
The what now looked like an anglerfish with no light and no eyes soon charged through Dirt towards Deylor.
Shocked by its speed Deylors foot was bitten.
Deylor cursed as he angrily shouted.
"Bastard, how do flames taste!"
Deylor released a jet stream of flames from his bitten left leg.
Deylors evolved physique screamed in pain as his leg felt like it was going to disattach at any moment until the fish beasts grip slowly weakened.
Deylor walked back to the cave with a limp and barely lugged the big fish over even with his physique.
Deylor then had a genius thought.
Wait, I don't even need to cook it since I cooked it whilst fighting.
The experienced explorer woke up slowly, he saw the boy he saved gloomily looking at a fish that was caught.
"Nice catch, why the frown?"
Deylors hollow eyes noticed the man late.
Deylor spoke slowly.
"Fish got burnt."
Deylor showed the inside of the fish.
Completely charred.
Considering the fact that Deylor had pumped high intensity flames into the fish for 10 seconds it was only normal.
But Deylor had to put up with the burnt fish.
Deylor took a bite.
"Ugh. ashy."
And then the day consisted of Deylor practicing with his flames, he wasn't quite suicidal enough to fight the empowered Tier 7 beasts just yet and honestly he needed to improve his flame control anyways. Deylor probably could of used his light in the fish fight however it drained him of too much energy preventing drawn out fights and if he used it to attack the grappling fish he might chop his leg off a well.
And then night came or rather theoretically came.
Deylor heard another crunching sound in the middle of the night.
Deylor found his old spot and looked again.
The Black Giant walked extremely slowly yet clearly.
It was closer.
The giant turned its head but Deylor had long ducked.
Not going through that again, Deylor thought as he slept again.
But this time with a lot more worry.
Deylor stood up with all their gear at early morning to the old explorer now known as Odon, -s surprise.
"Why are you acting like we're going hiking?" Odon asked with a yawn.
"Because we can't live the rest of our lives in a cave eating burnt fish. I'm going to go North till I find either civilization or a way back."
Odon shrugged.
"Sounds fine to me."
Deylor seemed fine but his feelings were in terror.
Because he didn't notice it last time but when 'day' came. The giant was nowhere to be seen. And this frightened Deylor as he thought about the chances of the Giant becomings smaller so it could chase him after all he was confident it was chasing him.
1. They met eyes.
2. It was originally walking opposite.
3. It looked at the cave where Deylor was twice and it walked as the crow flew or as the Giant stomped.
And so, Deylor now had a potential above Tier 10 level threat chasing his behinds.
Not good.